Usually means: Optimistic, cheerful, and brightly colored.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word rosy:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. rosy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rosy: Merriam-Webster
  3. rosy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. rosy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. rosy: Collins English Dictionary
  6. rosy: Vocabulary.com
  7. Rosy, rosy: Wordnik
  8. rosy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. rosy: Wiktionary
  10. rosy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. rosy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. rosy: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Rosy, rosy: Dictionary.com
  14. rosy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Rosy (film), Rosy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Rosy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. rosy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. rosy: Rhymezone
  19. rosy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. rosy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. rosy: FreeDictionary.org
  22. rosy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. rosy: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. rosy: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ROSY: Acronym Finder
  2. rosy: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. rosy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Rosy: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See rosier as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Rose-coloured.
adjective:  Resembling rose, as in scent of perfume.
adjective:  (figuratively) Optimistic.
verb:  (transitive) To make pinkish in colour.
verb:  (transitive) To present in a deceptively optimistic or positive light.
noun:  A diminutive of the female given name Rose and other related names, variant of Rosie.
noun:  Alternative spelling of Rosie (“tea”). [A diminutive of the female given name Rose, Rosemary and other female names related to the rose. Also used as a formal given name.]

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